[llvm-dev] New LLVM git repository conversion prototype

[James Y Knight via llvm-dev]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 4:49 AM Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 5:54 AM James Y Knight via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 7:40 PM Jeremy Lakeman <Jeremy.Lakeman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Semantic versioning would recommend "v8.0.0-dev", "v8.0.0-rc1" etc. The
> hyphen indicating that this is a pre-release version coming before "v8.0.0"
> >
> >
> > Here's my proposal:
> > - Release branches will be named: release/3.5.x (for old version
> numbering scheme), release/7.x (for new).
> > - The tags for release branches will be named v8.0.0 (for final), and
> v8.0.0-rc1 for release candidates.
> > - Tags on the master branch (which will be created at commits modifying
> the version file after branch creation, ala r338537) will be named
> v8.0.0-dev.
>
> I'm not sure about the part about tagging the master branch.
>
> In your example, if someone checks out v8.0.0-dev, they would not get
> the latest version of 8.0.0-dev, i.e. master, but the *first* commit,
> which seems odd.
>
> I suppose we could call it v8.0.0-base or something like that, but do
> we really need this?
>

We don't *need* it, no. But it might be useful.

The purpose of this tag would not be for people to check out, but rather to
allow "git describe" to return more interesting results when run on master.

See David Jones' email from Nov 16.
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